Since individual, team and organizational memory often play significant roles in innovation enabling and organizational transformation we have long had an interest in memory related research. This from the New York Times:
“The man who could not remember has left scientists a gift that will provide insights for generations to come: his brain, now being dissected and digitally mapped in exquisite detail.
The man, Henry Molaison — known during his lifetime only as H.M., to protect his privacy — lost the ability to form new memories after a brain operation in 1953, and over the next half century he became the most studied patient in brain science.
He consented years ago to donate his brain for study, and last February Dr. Jacopo Annese, an assistant professor of radiology at the University of California, San Diego traveled across the country and flew back with the brain seated next to him on Jet Blue.”
High school graduation photograph of Henry Molaison
The New York Times
Dissection Begins on Famous Brain
The San Diego Tribune
A bold, new brain project at University of California, San Diego
More on the Project HM Memory Research
The Brain Observatory
“The Brain Observatory is dedicated to the study of the architecture in the human brain. [They] have optimized multiple complementary imaging modalities, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and computer-controlled microscopy, to illustrate the detailed structural design of the brain and to understand how cognitive systems are perturbed by neurological disease.”
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/gallery/lab.php
